I have to confess I was somewhat surprised to see that HHS’s public breach tool is still adding affected entities to the Advanced Data Processing incident. Whether HHS is just getting around to adding them or whether the entities are first discovering and/or reporting that their patients were involved is not known to me. Readers may…
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OK, now HHS is messing with me…
Friday afternoon and HHS has added dozens of new updates/revisions to the breach tool – after adding dozens more during the week? Yikes. As before, some of them appear to be older incidents that had never been posted publicly while others are more recent. One change that I noted immediately is that they’ve now organized…
Long after some breaches occurred, we first find out via HHS's breach tool (Update 1)
HHS updated its breach tool yesterday. The following is an annotated list of new entries on their list. It is not clear to me why there are breach entries where the breaches occurred in 2011 or 2012. Did HHS delay in adding incidents to the breach tool or are entities first discovering and/or reporting the…
Five breaches newly disclosed by HHS's breach tool
On Friday, HHS added 14 new incident reports to its breach tool. Half of them are organizations affected by the ADPI breach, and I’ve added their numbers to the list I’ve been keeping of affected organizations and number notified of that incident. Another breach HHS added today was one already covered on this blog….
CCS Medical employee may have accessed and disclosed Social Security numbers for a tax refund fraud scheme
Although it’s flown under the media’s radar so far, CCS Medical has notified states, law enforcement, HHS, and the IRS that an employee may have accessed and disclosed customers’ and patients’ Social Security numbers for a tax refund fraud scheme. And yes, this took place in Florida. Interestingly (to me, anyway), the dates of possible…
Advanced Data Processing employee accessed and disclosed ambulance patients’ info to others for tax refund fraud scheme
Advanced Data Processing, a subsidiary of Intermedix Corp. that does business as ADPI, handles billing for a number of ambulance services throughout the U.S. The Florida-headquartered firm notified the California Attorney General’s Office this week that on October 1, they discovered a rogue employee had been accessing and disclosing patient information to others who used the information to file fraudulent…